Credit: REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAUAdds details about targets
ZURICH, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis NOVN.Ssaid on Tuesday that third-quarter core net income was $3.47 billion, up from $3.21 billion a year ago.
Analysts polled by Refinitiv had, on average, forecast $3.2 billion.
For 2020, the Basel-based company broadened its core operating income growth forecast to low double-digit to mid-teen percentage rate growth, from a low double-digit range previously, while net sales are expected to grow in the mid-single-digit percentage range.
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